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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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TikTok
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Weibo (Microblogging Website, China)
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Agriculture & ICTs, e-Agriculture
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Mobile Phone Use: Migrants & Refugees
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Nollywood
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
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Media / Communication Control
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Government Communication Strategies
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Social Media Marketing & Digital Public Relations
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Big Digital Platforms, Big Tech Companies
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Internet Shutdowns
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Netflix
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Influencers (Social Media)
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YouTube
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Uyghurs, Uighurs
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Fair Technology
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Social Media Landscapes
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Crowdfunding
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Participatory Action Research
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Mobile Phones in Rural Areas
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Non-Western Communication Approaches
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Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 239 pp.
"This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers - including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists - who
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WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora: Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 273 pp.
"WeChat, launched in 2011, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, en
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Understudied Digital Platforms in the Philippines
Internews (2021), 92 pp.
"Internews’ work on disinformation in the Philippines aims at uniting the strengths of stakeholders in the media community, civil society, academia, private sector, and social media companies, along six axes: factchecking and myth busting, media and information literacy, public policy advocacy, di
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TikTok and WeChat: Curating and Controlling Global Information Flows
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2020), 68 pp.
"The Chinese state has demonstrated a propensity for controlling and shaping the information environment of the Chinese diaspora—including via WeChat. The meteoric growth of TikTok has now put the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a position from which it can shape the information environment on a
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Smartphones: Die Macht in der Hand
iz3w, issue 376 (2020), pp. D1-D31
"Weltweit nutzen 3,3 Milliarden Menschen ein Smartphone, Tendenz weiter steigend. In nahezu allen Ländern des Südens ist die Verbreitung besonders groß. Nicht immer handelt es sich dabei um teure Topmodelle, aber gerade wegen ihrer Erschwinglichkeit sind allein in afrikanischen Ländern 700 Milli
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The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 385 pp.
The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web
Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press (2019), 312 pp.
"A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies." (Publisher description)
Social Media Marketing in China mit WeChat: Einsatzmöglichkeiten, Funktionen und Tools für ein erfolgreiches Mobile Business
Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler (2018), xviii, 247 pp.
"Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Unternehmen den Instant-Messaging-Dienst WeChat für ihr Social Media Marketing in China erfolgreich nutzen können. Denn WeChat ist viel mehr als ein mobiler Messenger – es ist Alltagsbegleiter und bezahlt beispielsweise Stromrechnungen, vereinbart Arzttermine, kauft Flug-
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